Doctrines and practice of Hippocrates in surgery and physic; with occasional remarks / By Francis Riollay.

  • Hippocrates
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1783
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    4 IN TRODUCT. EON but who, did not fome of his expreffions + fhew plainly that he practifed phyfic, muit, without hefitation, be looked upon as a phyfician, fince no-body elfe could rea- fonably pretend to condemn Hippocrates for his doctrine of critical days, or to ad- mire him for the truth of his prognoftics. The title of Latin Hippocrates is not more properly given him, on account of his being one of the firft practitioners of Italy, than becaufe he generally adhered to the principles of his Grecian matter. ) ** Under him is 4reteus, of Cappadocia, concerning whom the filence of cotempo- rary and fubfequent writers, together with a fimilarity between fome parts of his works, and many paflages quoted from Archigenes, by Galen and ZEtius, have raifed a {ufpicion of plagiarifm. + It matters not + See the judicious Preface of Dr, Grieve, to his Tranflation of Celfus, p. xii. t See Huxham’s Preface to his Treatife on Fevers, P: 1X, much